Pattern of road traffic injuries in Ghana Implications for control[文献翻译].doc

原文:
Pattern of road traffic injuries in Ghana: Implications for control
出处: InjuryControlandsafetyPromotion 2003,,-2,-76
作者: Francis ,Phyllis Antwi and Samuel Ofosu-Amaah
Abstract
Road traffic injuries and fatalities are increasing in Ghana. Police-collected crash and injury data for the period 1994–1998 were aggregated and analyzed using the MAAP5 accident analysis package developed by the Transport Research Laboratory, UK Published results of recent transport-related epidemiological and other surveys provided an additional data source. According to the 1994–1998 police data, road traffic crashes were a leading cause of death and injuries in Ghana. The other leading causes of death and injuries are occupational injuries which involve non-mechanized farming and tribal conflicts. The majority of road traffic fatalities (%) and injuries (%) occurred on roads in rural 58% more people died on roads in the rural areas than in urban areas, and generally more severe crashes occurred on rural pared with urban accounted for % of all road traffic majority of these (%) occurred in urban areas. The second leading population of road users affected was riders in passenger-ferrying buses, minibuses and majority of these (%) were killed on roads that pass through rural ca